Jboss Administration and Development [With CDROM]

by The JBoss Group, Scott Stark, Marc Fleury

The Official JBoss Development and Administration Guide offers a single source for information about deploying, administering, and extending JBoss. The book provides up-close and in-depth information... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672323478
• ISBN13: 9780672323478
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Not about Admin/Usage but Internals

Good book if you already know JBoss. If you're thinking of re-writing JBoss or just wondering how it works internally then this is good. Absolutely needs step-by-step guide on how to install a bean. Even the JBoss doc.s on the CD are very weak. Having used WebLogic and WebSphere extensively I have still spent 4 hours and not gotten a bean to deploy AFAICT. Oh yeah, no clients/usage are given for the examples; e.g. they show on p70 code and talk about the J2eeDeployer service as being a web service but give no example code or mention of how to use it! Oh yeah, p14 says to drop jar's in the deploy directory and they will be deployed automatically. Well, where are they? Where are the usage examples for the examples provided?

Great Book

I feel this is an excellent example of how project documentation should be presented. I would also like to point out that this book (or something very similar) comes in PDF format when you purchase the documentation subscription listed on the JBoss web site. I didn't figure this out until I paid for book and the documentation subscription.

Great book, but not for administrators

The book has lots of great information, but the title is quite misleading. There is really very, very little on administration. No step-by-step process of setting up the server. No strong explanation of how to configure the servers, whether in a single or multiple server environment. For administration--1 star. But the Development piece is quite good and for that purpose--5 stars!

An excellent work ...

An excellent piece of work...... "this is NOT a book for beginners" It is for folks who want to "understand" JBossIn the next version the authors should concentrate on adding more for newbies, because a great piece of work like JBoss will ultimately be successful ONLY when more developers really USE it.Kudos to the JBoss team !!!SR

An Amazing Software Product Rendered Transparent

To ensure that nobody is disappointed by this important piece of an amazing product, I should first state what this book is not.This is not a friendly tutorial that shows you how to build your first J2EE application. This is not a step-by-step guide with lots of pictures showing you how to deploy an Enterprise Javabean onto the JBoss Application Server. This is not a book about JBoss 3.0, also known as Rabbit Hole. Despite some poorly named "beta" releases, the JBoss 3.0 feature set is still in flux.JBoss Administration and Development provides a ground-up architectural view of the JBoss 2.4.x product line. JBoss is an open-source J2EE-like application server, and this book teaches you how to wield that open source code as power. You won't learn much about how to use JBoss from this book (the JBoss website forums are good for that sort of info), but if you are a capable developer you will learn to navigate every line of source code of this complex product, and be able to make whatever changes are necessary to make JBoss your own. You will learn about why the developers made some of the design decisions they did, and you will learn how the team turned a mundane API for monitoring software into the backbone of an astonishingly configurable software infrastructure.And in the end, this book will make you a far better J2EE developer, even if you decide to go on and use Weblogic, Websphere, Orion, or one of those other products that did not win JavaWorld's Editors Choice Application Server of the Year Award.